3 papers
cs.RO2026
X4Val: Learning Neural Surrogates for Variance-Reduced Policy Evaluation
Rachel Luo, Michael Watson, Apoorva Sharma +6
Rigorous evaluation of learning-based robotic systems is an essential prerequisite for deployment. However, real-world test data is expensive to gather; moreover, in a typical iter…
cs.RO2025
RoaD: Rollouts as Demonstrations for Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Autonomous Driving Policies
Guillermo Garcia-Cobo, Maximilian Igl, Peter Karkus +5
Autonomous driving policies are typically trained via open-loop behavior cloning of human demonstrations. However, such policies suffer from covariate shift when deployed in closed…
cs.RO2025
Sim2Val: Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation
Rachel Luo, Heng Yang, Michael Watson +4
Learning-based robotic systems demand rigorous validation to assure reliable performance, but extensive real-world testing is often prohibitively expensive, and if conducted may st…